Startups often believe they have to choose between speed and quality. The reality is that messy code slows you down within the first month.
When you launch an MVP with haphazard architecture: - Bug fixes break unrelated screens. - Adding a simple billing tier takes weeks of refactoring. - New engineers take a month to understand the codebase.
By architecting with disciplined design tokens, typed database schemas, and modular components from day one, your development velocity actually increases over time.